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I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends
Although experience is lauded as the greatest teacher, I realized last night that many of my long-lasting life lessons came from my friends. And so, in case you didn’t have friends to teach you each of these lessons, here are a few of the things I’ve learned from the friends around me. (In no particular…
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In The Other Eyes
I was sitting in the window seat on a direct flight from Istanbul to Chicago, about halfway through 28 hours of traveling home from an exhausting trip. I felt grimy, I desperately needed to brush my teeth, and I would gladly have whined to anyone who would listen about how tired I was and how three hours…
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My Own Reminder
Tonight I accidentally shattered a bottle of wine on the steps of a church in Tbilisi, Georgia. I never thought I would say that sentence. Yesterday I had pizza with a girl who grew up in a village where soldiers kidnapping children for ransom and women for wives is still a frequent occurrence. I really…
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Being Mediocre
“I know people say that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. But I also think that something can be worth doing at all, even if you can’t do it well.” – My Boss I don’t like doing things I’m not good at. That does not mean I don’t like trying new things…
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The Shrinks
I pull into the medical center parking lot, and stop in the last empty parking spot. The car parked in front of me is impossible to ignore. Flaming red, with a starting ticket price of $70,000 (yes, I Googled it, so what?) you could almost just roll your eyes and move on, except for the vanity…